I don't want to leave people thinking they've merely seen another actor using his same bag of tricks and fake charm.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's easier to see in someone else, another actor, how they kind of disappear and then this other persona appears. A great actor is a thing of mystery.
There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep.
Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.
That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.
Any actor wants to do interesting roles, different roles. It's not all that much fun to do the same thing over and over again.
Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes you can't see the boundaries anymore.
Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or portraying what he knows about other people. On the contrary, the actor may simply be a person who's more willing than others to reveal some truths about himself.
If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to do that.
I would never assume to tell another actor how to do his job!
Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.